Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition (but not planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...
...Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. was optimistic; Consolidated's engineers will be kept busy designing a wide range of non-flyable products. Example: last week Consolidated signed a contract with the Greyhound Corp. for the development of a super...
...Correct Transliteration of Russian Proper Names." Another is the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the [British] Empire. In the current issue of the Society's Journal, E. J. Harding discusses a species of fauna whose preservation seems extremely unlikely. This is the astoundingly fleet "Greyhound Pig," which in western Ireland a century and a half ago was frequently used as a leader of hunts...
...Greyhound Pig" is believed extinct, but Mr. Harding revived the memory of a sporting classic recorded in Sharkey's Racing Calendar for 1794. That year a "Greyhound Pig" was pitted against a race horse, the pig's backers being allowed to egg it on by whistling and shouting at the halfway mark and finish line. The pig won by a few feet, its owner taking...
Bobby stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield...